Learning

I have a habit lately of taking concepts from other disciplines and applying them to this Resolution Solution journey. Yesterday in a class about technology in education we were talking about future thinking. The presenter used the analogy of a quarterback throwing to a receiver. He doesn't throw to where the receiver is, he throws to where he will be, envisioning the pass completion, all the while remaining in the present and staying aware of the potential tacklers around him. He operates in split screen, aiming for success in both. I love football and I got this loud and clear. And it rang a bell for me...me who is so impatient with everything. I realized that this is what I am doing. I am just paying too much attention to the future side of the screen. It's all about the balance. He also gave a great quote from an author..the present is nothing more than the past of the future...whoa...

Later we were talking about literacy; information literacy is a big buzzword in the education technology field. "The kids of the future need to become information literate!" The presenter challenged us to rethink it. He said that literacy indicates a certain level of understanding, and we should instead consider information fluency. He talked about the difference between understanding a language and being fluent in it. Where it becomes something you just get and use without even thinking that you are using it or how you are using it. This too, I understand, from having studied several languages.

I wondered if all this stuff I am learning along this journey will ever become just a part of how I live and not something I have to think about every moment. Will there be a day that it just becomes a part of how I do things and not a conscious, forced decision...because it gets tiring, and I start the big pity party in my head about why I have to do this when everyone else just seems to go blithely along. Clearly I struggled with this my whole life. Maybe I just didn't have the right education about this subject. Maybe I can become fluent in this healthy habits stuff...in negotiating the challenges of the present for the benefit of the future...oh well, at least I am learning along the way...